Hi, Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred to me in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think that's what they suggest there? I actually want to install a fedora on part of the hard disk. But I could maybe mount the full DVD .iso using the USB stick live version, after mounting the Vista partition which contains that ISO, and run the installation from the mounted .iso - that's what I was trying to look for in google. I was hoping it is possible to do that, instead of having to boot from the full DVD version for full installation (since I dont have a DVD or a 4GB USB stick...) Thanks for your answer. On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I thought I would try installing Fedora 9. Unfortunately, my laptop > > has no optical drive. > > I made a bootable USB stick, and like I said, I manage to boot from > > it, but the fonts are corrupt. > > Still, I can move to text mode (say ctrl-alt-f1) and use the Live > > version quite well. > > > > Since I have Vista, I thought I might have an easier way of installing > > Fedora without having a DVD. I thought of downloading the ISO and then > > looking for a boot loader or something of that sort that can "boot" > > from an .iso file (on a windows partition.) > > I know one can mount an .iso on linux to a directory, so I see no > > reason why a boot loader could not do something like that as well. > > Because it's a completely different situation. You're asking for the > boot loader to understand the Windows filesystem so it can find the iso > file. > > > However, I did not manage to find something to allow me to do that. > > Looking on google leads to all kind of "hints" that it is possible to > > somehow install fedora using the DVD .iso (on the Vista partition) or > > from the Live CD on a USB stick (without being connected to the > > internet), but nothing explicit. Anyone has experience with it? Also, > > I hope Fedora 9 installation will make it easy to create a new > > partition for it (or maybe I should first deal with using gparted to > > prepare a partition properly)... > > Have you read the Fedora Installation Guide? There's a section > specifically about installing from USB media: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html... > > poc

Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred to me in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think that's what they suggest there?

I actually want to install a fedora on part of the hard disk. But I could maybe mount the full DVD .iso using the USB stick live version, after mounting the Vista partition which contains that ISO, and run the installation from the mounted .iso - that's what I was trying to look for in google. I was hoping it is possible to do that, instead of having to boot from the full DVD version for full installation (since I dont have a DVD or a 4GB USB stick...)